Ethnic category: 7100 books
Korea
A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Compiled by specialists from the University of Durham Department of East Asian Studies, this new reference work contains approximately 1500 entries covering Korean civilisation from early times to the present day. Subjects include history, politics, art, archaeology, literature, etc. The Dictionary...
Are British Police Institutionally Racist?
Memoirs of an Accused Conman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Read about the real time saga of this Pakistan-born former Police officer who was tracked down as an international con-man by three British Police forces operating in tandem, arrested, locked up and charged with criminal deception - all for simply applying for jobs with them! Author Shujaat Husain,...
by Jae-Cheon Lim
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Kim Jong Il came to power after the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994. Contrary to expectations, he has succeeded in maintaining enough political stability to remain in power. Kim Jong Il's Leadership of North Korea is an examination of how political power has been developed, transmitted from...
Syrian Episodes
Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2007
When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand...
Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation
The Architecture and Extension of International Trade Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
This book explores the significance of the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as well as some of the issues brought into sharper focus by the Seattle demonstrations of 1999. Located within the broader study of global governance, Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation offers...
The Kurds
A Contemporary Overview
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
The position of the 19 million Kurds is an extremely complex one. Their territory is divided between 5 sovereign states, none of which have a Kurdish majority. They speak widely divergent dialects, and are also divided by religious affiliations and social factors. It has taken the tragic and horrifying...
by David H James
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This volume is a history of the Japanese drive for the conquest of Greater East Asia. It includes an account of the Malayan campaign and the Fall of Singapore, followed by an outline of the dominant features of the campaign in S E Asia and the Pacific and ending with the attack on Japan and the unconditional...
Collected Writings of Ian Nish
Part 2: Japanese Political History - Japan and East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Ian Nish on international relations affecting Japan, Russia, China and Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
by Richard Storry
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan series, published under the Japan Library imprint, collects the work of Richard Storry on contempory issues and the history of Japan.
Foreign Policy of Colonial India
1900–1947
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The foreign policy of a colonial country is very different from that of a sovereign country. Two features of the foreign policy of colonial India were: one, that it was framed in the interest of Britain; and two, that till the very end, the British showed an unflinching determination to maintain their...
Western Interactions With Japan
Expansions, the Armed Forces and Readjustment 1859-1956
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Remarkable insights into the profound Japanese concern 'for defending the cherished Japanese values amid an era of fantastic change', writes Peter Lowe.
The White Racial Frame
Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology emphasized in other theories of...
Race, Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970
We are the Supermen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 describes the young black male crisis, why we are largely unfamiliar with the story of the black superman, and why this matters to contemporary debates. It does so by returning to the work of those original black social scientists to explore...
Black behind the Ears
Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly...